The Killer Inside Me

Release Date: June 18th, 2010

Starring: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Writer: John Curran, Jim Thompson, Michael Winterbottom

Studio: IFC Films

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes

Lou Ford is a very handsome and attractive guy, living in a small town in West Texas around 50’s. He is a sheriff’s deputy by profession, but his favorite pastime is connected not so much with his job, as with women. Lou has a long-term relationship with Amy on the one hand, and the secret dates with a prostitute called Joyce on the second.

But women are not the only problem he has. Sociopathic nature of Lou Ford starts manifesting itself from time to time. Something, hidden deep inside in his mind, doesn’t let him live a life of a normal man. At the same time the jurisdiction of West Texas is very much anxious about the growing number of murders in the place. Unexpectedly to himself Lou find it out, that he may be some way connected with these crimes, and his suspicions grow every day. The man is absolutely sure, that he is a psychopath, having an inclination for sadism. He is a murderer. What should he do with such knowledge of himself? The investigators start to pursue Lou. But there is something strange in their behavior, which gives the haunted man the idea of their own possible secrets…

“The Killer Inside Me” was directed by Michael Winterbottom. The plot of the film is based on the original story, written by Jim Thompson.

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Mademoiselle Chambon

Release Date: June 11th, 2010

Starring: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure Atika, Jean-Marc Thibault, Arthur Le Houérou

Director: Stéphane Brizé

Writer: Stéphane Brizé, Eric Holder, Florence Vignon

Studio: Lorber Films

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes

The drama film, directed by Stéphane Brizé, “Mademoiselle Chambon” describes a quiet and ordinary life of an elementary school teacher in a provincial town.

Véronique Chambon rents an apartment, where she spends almost all of her time, free from classes. Once she asks the parents of her pupils to come to school in order to get to know them and their occupation. Thus Véronique encounters a class parent Jean, whose shy behavior while explaining his daily routine makes the teacher to get interested in this strange man. Jean is a simple home builder, who has a family, and of course there is a distance between them, because of social difference and moral principles.

Nevertheless the attraction between Jean and Véronique grows, turning to an unexpected romance. This is a very delicate and special relationship, full of hidden passion, strong feelings and charm. The excellent play of Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Lindon (who are divorced in real life), brings to “Mademoiselle Chambon” that loving atmosphere, which keeps the viewer in suspense. This is an elegant and dramatic love story about the impossible relations between two beloved, who have met each other by chance and couldn’t pass by…

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I Am Love

Release Date: June 18th, 2010

Starring: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono

Director: Luca Guadagnino

Writer: Luca Guadagnino, Barbara Alberti, Ivan Cotroneo, Walter Fasano

Studio: Magnolia Pictures

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 2 hours

The drama film, following the life of a rich Italian family, touches upon uneasy relations within the family of Recchi.

The head of the Recchi family has announced his will, which puzzled all the family members. According to this will, Recchi’s greatest industrial company is to be led by two relatives, who will share ownership of this company. The supposed owners are his son Tancredi and his grandson Edoardo. The problem is, that Edo has another plans for his occupation. He and his best chef friend Antonio are going to open a restaurant in the coming future.

But business affairs are not the main theme of the film; in the center of the plot are dramatic events, happening to another significant member of the Recchi family – Tancredi’s wife. Being a Russian immigrant, Emma has adopted the traditions and culture of Italy. She is a careful mother of her child and a good wife, till she falls in love with her son’s friend Antonio. This is the passion that knows neither age borders, nor any other prejudices. The love affair with Antonio considerably changes Emma, her life and the life of the whole family…

 “I Am Love”, directed by Luca Guadagnino, is a tragic story about unconditional love and its consequences.

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Dogtooth

Release Date: June 25th, 2010

Starring: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis

Director: Giorgos Lanthimos

Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Giorgos Lanthimos

Studio: Kino International

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes

Three teenagers are living with their mother and father on a remote country estate. The politics of the parents is very strange and tight, when it comes to children upbringing. Their kids are totally isolated from the whole world. For the educational purposes they listen to a bunch of handmade tapes, for physical exercises and the entertainment there are also some strict rules, invented by the parents. They avoid new words in order to limit and prevent the possible influence of the world out of the estate boundaries. Any outside word receives a new meaning here, often having nothing in common with the original. So “the sea” means a huge armchair, and “zombies” are none other than small yellow flowers.

The only outside member, who is allowed to come to the house and keep in touch with children, is Cristina, a family’s security guard, who is hired to entertain the male carnality of their son.

But the system of total control invented by the parents can’t exist forever. One day the whole world within the house crashes, and it is Cristina, who is responsible for that. Tired from all the prescribed rules and sexual harassments of the son, she presents a pretty stone headband, which glows in the darkness, to one of the sisters. This action becomes a starting point on the way to shake all the inner world of the estate to its core.

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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

Release Date: June 11th, 2010

Starring: Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen, Yelena Morozova, Natacha Lindinger, Grigori Manukov

Director: Jan Kounen

Writer: Chris Greenhalgh, Carlo De Boutiny, Jan Kounen

Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 58 minutes

The touching love story between the promising Russian composer and one of the most successful fashion icons takes place in the beginning of the 20th century. 1913 Igor Stravinsky came to Paris with his new masterpiece – “The Rite of Spring”. The controversial character of the music although didn’t suit the tastes of the French audience, who criticized it as too radical and too revolutionary. The debut of Stravinsky on Paris stage failed, and his reputation as a composer was ruined for many years. Nevertheless there was someone, who admired his “The Rite of Spring”, and it was Coco Chanel, who found his work excellent and very impressive.

Seven years later Stravinsky and Chanel meet again. Coco has just lost her boyfriend Boy Capel in a car crash - the one, whom she has been infatuated with for many years. The prominent fashion designer gets to know, that Stravinsky and his family are refugees, who stay in Paris now but have no means of subsistence. Feeling deep compassion for the composer, Coco invites Igor, his wife Catherine and their four children to live in her summer house. Their relations become very friendly, but soon they grow into something more serious, than just a friendship. The attraction between fashion icon and Stravinsky turns into a dramatic love affair.

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The Father of My Children

Release Date: May 21st, 2010

Starring: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Chiara Caselli, Alice de Lencquesaing, Alice Gautier, Eric Elmosnino

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve

Writer: Mia Hansen-Løve

Studio: IFC Films

Genre: Drama

Runtime:1 hour 50 minutes

Grégoire Canvel is a talented filmmaker, who has a production company of his own. His “Moon Films” is considered to be a very prestigious studio, which has plenty of productions. Grégoire is full of positive energy and shown as a charming man with charisma, good sense of humor and enthusiasm. He is devoted to his business and can’t imagine his life without his work. Besides a good job he also has a family, which consists of his dear wife and three children, whom he loves to the depth of his heart. Each weekend Grégoire spends his spare time with his family, on the farm, belonging to them. At least he tries to. It’s a beautiful spot to have a rest and enjoy the nature of the country in the circle of his loved ones. The problem is that the numerous co-workers, directors and investors trouble Grégoire and his family a lot even here.

The respectability of the company is under question because of too many productions and too many depts, concerned with them. The company works and exists at its owner's risk. And one day all the problems of “Moon Films” reveal themselves. The events following after that have really disastrous effects, and not only for the filmmaker and his company, but for his family as well. Everything changes in the life of Grégoire’s family in the twinkling of an eye.

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Princess Kaiulani

Release Date: May 14th, 2010

Starring: Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper, Will Patton, Shaun Evans, Jimmy Yuill

Director: Marc Forby

Writer: Marc Forby, Robert Payne

Studio: Roadside Attractions

Genre: Biography, Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes

 “Princess Kaiulani” is a historical drama, based on real events, happened in Hawaii, 1888. The story of the film describes the unstable position of Hawaii of that time: the paradise, which was at the edge of confrontation between civilians and the Hawaiian monarchy. The rebels, upraising against the Royal family were led by the party, influenced by the American government.

As a result of rebellion the monarchy has been overthrown, and the Royal family has been driven away. The young girl of thirteen – that was the princess Kaiulani of that time - shared her relatives’ fate. She was separated from her parents and exiled to England, for her own safety. Absolutely different climate, traditions and culture and, what is more important, absolutely different society, she got into, could change her character inevitably. But despite all suffers and difficulties, she had to go through, princess Kaiulani remained the person, who thought of her motherland and troubled by these memories. She wanted another future for her country and the people.

Soon she fell in love for Clive Davies, a bright Englishman. A bit later the princess decided to return to America in order to meet with President Grover Cleveland. She wanted to put an end to injustice against Havaiian civilians.

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Multiple Sarcasms

Release Date: May 7th, 2010

Starring: Timothy Hutton, Mira Sorvino, Dana Delany, Mario Van Peebles, India Ennenga

Director: Brooks Branch

Writer: Brooks Branch, Linda Morris

Studio: Falcon Films

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes

Gabriel is a man about forty years old, a successful architect, a husband of a pretty nice woman and a father of his devoted daughter. He has close friends and good colleagues, who respect him. Gabriel has almost everything in his life, what one needs to be happy. But still he is not.

Trying to reveal the problem of his being dissatisfied with himself, the man decides to change something in his life. Gabriel begins to explore the reasons of his dissatisfaction and all of a sudden comes to a strange conclusion – to give up his professional activity and change it for something else. Thus the idea to write a play of his own appears in his mind. He hires an agent, buys a typewriter and a type-recorder and starts writing his play. The scenario is based on real events; the actors are his close ones. 

The dramatic events, which followed after these changes in Gabriel’s life, were really catastrophic. First of all the play became a sort of self-discovery for the man. While writing a play, he has not only faced with the real himself, but saw the real faces of the people around him.

The success of the play was guaranteed: Gabriel’s talent as a playwright didn’t disappoint him and his audience. But this play cost him a lot. His family life was ended by divorce, his relationships with familiar people changed inevitably. But despite all these changes the main hero seems to have found finally his way to happiness.

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Mother and Child

Release Date: May 7th, 2010

Starring: Naomi Watts, Samuel L. Jackson, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, Carla Gallo

Director: Rodrigo García

Writer: Rodrigo García

Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 2 hours 06 minutes

“Mother and Child” is an absorbing story, dramatic events of which touch upon the questions of motherhood, adoption and family in whole. The scenario is written by Rodrigo García, who is also the director of the film.

Three storylines form the basis of the plot – the lives of three women, which is rather different but nevertheless have something in common.

Karen (Annette Bening) has been suffering constant torments since fourteen years old, when she gave birth to a baby, but gave up her. Karen has neither seen her baby, nor known anything about her since she was born.

Elizabeth (Naomi Watts) has never known her mother and been adopted in her early ages. The woman became an excellent lawyer, but alongside with her professional success, her personal life needs something to be desired.

Lucy (Kerry Washington) opens the third story, which is also connected with motherhood and adoption. She and her husband dream of having a child of their own, but as far as Lucy is infertile, they have to search for a baby for adoption.

A perfect cast, interesting characters, well thought-out episodes and the talent of Garcia as a filmmaker make the film “Mother and Child” really worth seeing.

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Letters to Juliet

Release Date: May 14th, 2010

Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Gael García Bernal, Christopher Egan, Franco Nero

Director: Gary Winick

Writer: Jose Rivera, Tim Sullivan

Studio: Summit Entertainment

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes

“Letters to Juliet” is a sentimental love story, which takes place in the city of Verona. Being a home of legendary Romeo and Juliet, this place has a special atmosphere of love and passion.

 Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) travels to Europe and finds herself in Verona, where she becomes one of numerous volunteers, whose main duty is to answer letters to Juliet. These letters are mostly written by people, who suffer from love and are in search for advice concerning their deep feelings.

One day Sophie finds a lost letter, dated around sixties. The sender of the letter is a certain Claire (Vanessa Redgrave), an Englishwoman, who was a teenage at the moment, when she was writing her letter. Sophie is deeply touched and fascinated by the message of Claire and decides to help the woman to find her love, many years after. She responds Claire and inspires her to take a trip to Italy, where she could find her long-lost love and try to re-establish relations, if it is possible.

Unlike Claire her grandson Charlie (Christopher Egan) is of course not delighted with the idea. But as soon as he likes Sophie, the romantic adventure to Italy is guaranteed. What will her beloved answer to Claire? Is it by any chance possible to find one’s love many years later? “Letters to Juliet” is a film, which knows the answer.

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Kites

Release Date: May 21st, 2010

Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Bárbara Mori, Kangana Ranaut, Nicholas Brown, Luce Rains

Director: Anurag Basu

Writer: Anurag Basu, Robin Bhatt, Akarsh Khurana, Rakesh Roshan

Studio: Big Pictures

Genre: Adventure, Romance

Runtime: 2 hours 47 minutes

This is a sentimental love story of two people, whose hearts are destined to each other. “Kites” is an international film, telling the audience about feelings, for which there are no barriers like language, culture, social status and the number of another prejudices, invented by human.

The brilliant artists Hrithik Roshan in the role of Jay and Barbara Mori, who starred as Natasha did their best to create an atmosphere of romance and adventure in “Kites”. This is a story about love without borders. Jay is a light-hearted hustler, Mori is a Mexican actress.

The concurrence of circumstances makes the main hero to display all his courage on his way to Mori’s heart. The thing is that his beloved is engaged to another man. And soon Jay finds himself in the heart of a Mexican desert, wounded and left to die under the merciless sun. He has to struggle for his life, and it is his devoted love to Natasha, which makes him to withstand all the difficulties on his way.

The film directed by Anurag Basu is considered to be a rare “Bollywood” masterpiece – rare in a certain number of reasons. The film has its 90-minutes-long remake, releasing under the title “Kites: The Remix”, which as opposed to its 130-minutes original is shot in a bit different way and rhythm.

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John Rabe

Release Date: May 21st, 2010

Starring: Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi, Anne Consigny, Dagmar Manzel

Director: Florian Gallenberger

Writer: Florian Gallenberger

Studio: Majestic-Filmverleih

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 2 hours 14 minutes

John Rabe was a German businessman, who won an honor among Chinese in 1937. That year was connected with the period of time under the name “Nanking Massacre”, which lasted around two months and took away many of people’s lives. Japanese soldiers brutally attacked the Chinese population, including women and children. Rabe and his command took great part in the negotiations between China and Japan, resulted by the possibility to protect the innocent Chinese people from the Imperial Army and its actions. Thanks to the German businessman a safety zone was created. Hundreds of thousands civilians ran there, and this place became a last hope for many of them to save their lives. According to the reliable information, Rabe has helped to rescue more than 200,000 people’s lives.

The film describes the dramatic events of the year 1937 and introduces to the audience the brave man, who has rendered great services to China and its civilians. The story of the film is based on the diaries of the businessman, written during that period of time.

John Rabe became a national hero in China, and he is still considered to be the prominent figure in the history of the country, although he has never been awarded inter vivos.

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Holy Rollers

Release Date: May 21st, 2010

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Danny A. Abeckaser, Ari Graynor, Jason Fuchs

Director: Kevin Asch

Writer: Antonio Macia

Studio: First Independent Pictures

Genre: Crime, Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 29 minutes

“Holy Rollers” is a drama film, based on real events, happening around nineties. It describes the crime story, connected with drugs: the way how they get into US, from where they come and who is behind this sort of business.

Sam Gold is a young Jew, living with his family in the Orthodox community in Brooklyn. His life is strictly predetermined by his relatives. They have chosen a fiancée for him for one, and they see him to become a Rabbi in future for seconds. Being not crazy about his would-be wife and not inspired by the position of a Rabbi, Sam doesn’t think twice, when he sees the opportunity to change his life to the better.

Yosef Zimmerman - a friend of him, offers Sam a job of a mule for a drug dealer in Israel, and Sam takes the offer. Soon he becomes a skilled smuggler of Ecstasy. Exciting the luxurious lifestyle of Amsterdam and Manhattan, Sam experiments with Ecstasy and falls in love for his dealer’s girlfriend Rachel. At the same time Sam Gold is under suspicion of illegal affairs in Jewish community, he belongs to.

The more Sam gets involved in drug business, the more evident it becomes to him, that this is not the sort of job, he would like to do. One day he decides to put an end to this business and run.

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Happiness Runs

Release Date: May 14th, 2010

Starring: Hanna Hall, Mark L. Young, Jesse Plemons, Rutger Hauer, Rich Sickler

Director: Adam Sherman

Writer: Adam Sherman

Studio: Strand Releasing

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes

“Happiness Runs” is a psychological drama, directed by Adam Sherman and partly based on the autobiographical events from his childhood. The film touches upon a life within a hippie commune in sixties. The lifestyle of the commune is based on principles of free love, drugs and violence.

The main hero of the story, telling us by Sherman, is Victor, who was born and raised in the commune. Seeing perfectly well disadvantages of the Utopian views, the young man realizes soon, that his own ideas and ideals do not correspond with those of the community. This is the place, where women bodies can be freely used by the guru Insley, who uses his abilities to hypnosis to seduce women and take their possessions. The new generation, who lives in the atmosphere of drugs and polygamy nearly since childhood is really threatening either.

Victor and his girlfriend Becky are going to run from this world, but to do that they need money. For this purpose Victor tries to sell weed, but his attempt to earn money in such a way fails. The guys from the commune, who are also interested in Becky, cut him out. He tries to get money from his mother, but she is also among those, who are deeply influenced by the guru. Besides Becky can’t leave her father, who is near death. Victor has nothing to do but staying with Becky to protect her from the possible violence.

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Daddy Longlegs

Release Date: May 14th, 2010

Starring: Ronald Bronstein, Sage Ranaldo, Frey Ranaldo, Ted Barron, Jake Braff

Director: Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie

Writer: Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie

Studio: IFC Films

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes

Joshua and Ben Safdie present their film “Daddy Longlegs”, dedicated to their beloved father and based on real events, taken from their own childhood. Partly a comedy and partly a drama, the film describes Lenny (Ronald Bronstein) and his relations with his two sons Frey and Sage, played by brothers Frey and Sage Ranaldo. The relations are quite difficult and there are several reasons for that. First of all it is because Lenny is divorced and lives separately from the family and his sons. The second reason is his own character, which makes him often to behave as an overgrown child. Therefore the couple of weeks, he spends with his kids every year, turn into real chaos. Trying to be caring and strict father at the same time, Lenny often loses control over Frey and Sage.

Working as a projectionist at the local theater situated in New York City, he often has to work overtime. He takes boys with himself, and this ends by nothing good but their run off the theater. The occasional trip to upstate New York also appears to be rather troublesome than enjoyable.

“Daddy Longlegs” is a funny story, that touches upon the issue of parenthood and difficulties, which each father can experience sometimes, when it comes to upbringing children.

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Badmaash Company

Release Date: May 7th, 2010

Starring: Shahid Kapur, Anushka Sharma, Meiyang Chang, Vir Das, Anupam Kher

Director: Parmeet Sethi

Writer: Parmeet Sethi

Studio: Yash Raj Films

Genre: Drama, Romance

Runtime: 2 hours 04 minutes

"Badmaash Company" is related to Indian life in 1990. This is a period of time, when protection of the interests of consumers is not expanded over the country yet. This is the time, when fashion is dictated mostly by the West. All the imported goods are considered to be perfect and luxurious, no matter how well they are designed and produced. At the same time all that is labeled “made in India” is not popular. It may sound ironic, but it’s a fact.

Four middle class friends, well acquainted with this state of things, decide to make a profit of the situation. Karan, Bulbul, Zing and Chandu, who are quite ordinary guys, come together in order to create a business of their own. Their company is engaged in import of everything, Indian people desire to have. The main peculiarity of the business they invented is a method of doing the wrong things the right way. Under this motto the company of four leads them soon to unbelievable success and prosperity.

This is a story of how one can earn quick money, having nothing but a good idea. All you need is to think it over and try…

Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Meiyang Chang, and Vir Das are starring in the film, perfectly written and directed by a filmmaker Parmeet Sethi.

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The Perfect Game

Release Date: April 16th, 2010

Director: William Dear

Writer: W.William Winokur

Starring: Clifton Collins Jr., Cheech Marin, Moises Arias, Jake T. Austin,Gabriel Morales, Ryan Ochoa, Carlos Padilla, Jansen Panettiere, Mario Quinonez Jr., Anthony Quinonez

Studio: IndustryWorks Pictures

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 58 minutes

The film “The Perfect Game” directed by William Dear is a dramatic story of nine boys who wanted to play professional baseball. Without a penny in the pocket, the young fellows started their professional career in a small Mexican town.

The events of the film are based on real events, which took place in Monterrey (Mexico) in 1957. Despite of their poverty, the boys had a common dream and they strived to implement it. It was a strong desire to become professional baseball players and to win was their main virtue. Trained by the former baseball coach, the boys got the skills to play baseball perfectly.

With the basic skills and longing for triumph, the baseball players started to travel to the championship. The road to fame wasn’t so easy to the sportsmen, but they did their best to be in Little League Game. The desire of boys to find their place in life was very strong. Due to their persistence, courage and great skills the baseball players could reach the top.

Supported by the priest and the baseball coach, the boys had to cross soon the whole America to get in place where the championship took place.

So young and so talented, the young Mexicans managed to gain the highest price during the game and were accepted as the best team.

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The Joneses

Release Date: April 16th, 2010

Director: Derrick Borte

Writer: Derrick Borte, Randy T. Dinzler

Starring: Demi Moore, Amber Heard, David Duchovny, Gary Cole, Glenne Headly, Lauren Hutton, Ben Hollingsworth, Chris Williams, Catherine Dyer, Ashley LeConte Campbell

Studio: Roadside Attractions

Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes

The film “The Joneses” directed by Derrick Borte is dedicated to the topics of love and family relations. A perfect couple with perfect children and ideal relations appears in a small town one day. Everyone in the town is amazed by the calmness and affability in the family of Joneses. Their extraordinary love becomes the object of a good example and the reason of people’s envy.

With brilliant actors starring in the film, Demi Moore and David Duchovny as a wife and a husband, the film arouses intrigue. Moore is a woman who is determined to become prosper in life and her husband is too. The teenage children, played by Ben Hollingsworth and Amber Heard, seem to love their parents very much.

In the course of the film “The Joneses”, the audience gets to know that the perfect couple with kids is fake and artificial, and very soon the residents of the town face this truth.

It turns out that the Joneses are the workers of the company and the business is the only reason, they have to play their fake roles of a happy family for. To sell the products is the main aim of the marketing company, who send the Jones to the town. And everything, the members of the perfect family have, is appeared to be just a well thought-out step on the way to tout the goods.

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The Greatest

Release Date: April 2nd, 2010

Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan, Johnny Simmons, Aaron Johnson

Director: Shana Feste

Writer: Shana Feste

Studio: Senator Distribution

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes

Grace and Allen Brewer is a couple, who has lost their older and beloved son Bennett recently. This terrible event became a reason of total misunderstanding, coming to the breaking point in their relations. The son of Brewers has got into an accident, which ended for him lethally. But several months after Bennett’s death, the family gets acquainted with a young woman called Rose. Rose is appeared to have been familiar with their dear son before the car crash. Moreover she announces the grieving couple that she is waiting a baby soon, and the father of her child is Bennett. Allen and Grace have to take Rose in. First her appearance in the Brewer’s family causes particular changes in the life, they are used to. Someway it tears Grace and Allen from each other even more. But as soon as they understand, that Rose is quite a nice woman to keep in touch with, she gradually becomes a good friend of both of them. Step by step the family finds the way to mutual understanding and assistance and reunites.

 “The Greatest” is an award winning drama, written and directed by Shana Feste and her successful debut in filmmaking. Among the actors, including famous Susan Sarandon, Pierce Brosnan and Carey Mulligan, the viewer can also see the rising film-star Aaron Johnson.

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Don McKay

Release Date: April 2nd, 2010

Director: Jake Goldberger

Writer: Jake Goldberger

Starring: Thomas Haden Church, Elisabeth Shue, Melissa Leo, M. Emmet Walsh, Keith David, James Rebhorn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Ted Arcidi, Stephen Benson, Jack Burke

Studio: Image Entertainment/One Village Entertainment

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes

The main hero of the film is Don McKay (Thomas Haden Church), who left his hometown twenty-five years ago. Due to some dramatic events, happened there long ago, he bet never to come back. But after receiving a letter from his former girlfriend called Sonny (Elisabeth Shue), he decides to change his mind and returns to see her.  In her message Sonny tells Don, that she is dying and wants to see him before the death.

Don McKay finds his ex-passion rather changed, as well as the town he lived in. The whole atmosphere of the town and its inhabitants make Don feel strangely comfortless. Trying to kindle the flame of love between them again, soon he gets involved in the spiteful world of this place and may never return to his usual life. Sonny regrets that she let him go twenty-five years ago, and seems to have realized the power of her love to him only being near death.

The film “Don McKay” tells the viewer a dramatic story of romance, love and death, reflecting themselves through human relations. The film was directed by Jake Goldberger and is appeared to be one of those, providing us with a good example of how these relations can be.

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Vincere

Release Date: March 19th, 2010

Starring: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Corrado Invernizzi, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon

Director: Marco Bellocchio

Writer: Marco Bellocchio, Daniela Ceselli

Studio: IFC Films

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Runtime: 2 hours 08 minutes

The film is a biographical drama. The plot is based on the story of the secret marriage of the Italian dictator (Filippo Timi) to Ida Dalser (Giovanna Mezzogiorno). It is seldom discussed in history books but this fact doesn’t alleviate the drama of the situation. They meet when Mussolini is just at the dawn of his political career. The film reveals their complex, full of contradictions and ambiguity relationship. Head over heels in love, Dalser sells off her possession in order to raise money for financing the publication of socialist newspaper and helping a fascist dictator-to-be to build his career.  She believes his words about "socially emancipated future” and wholly shares his ideals.

Having borne Mussolini a son, Dalser finds out that he has already had another family and begins to protest the situation. Her request ruins her own life and the life her adulterate son. The Fascist dictator does his best to get rid of her.

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